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Mahdist State in the Sudan

Books on: (mahdi or mahdist or mahdism or mahadists) and sudan

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The Mahdist State in the Sudan, 1881-1898

Book by P. M. Holt; Clarendon Press, 1958

Subjects:

Mahdi, Sudan--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...show great vitality until the present day. The Mahdist Idea The idea of a Mahdi has assumed two main forms in the Muslim world. 2...returned to rule the Muslim community. 1 Among the Sunn Mahdism is a popular belief, particularly in times of crisis...the style of al-Naba asa, the Prophet Jesus. Sunna Mahdism has thriven in North Africa, where historical circumstances have made further additions to the Mahdist idea. The career of the Mahdi Mu 5ammad b. Tsmart, the founder of the Almohad movement...
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The Southern Sudan, 1883-1898: A Struggle for Control

Book by Robert O. Collins; Yale University Press, 1962

Subjects:

Mahdi, Sudan--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...began to study the traditional Mahdist prophecies. These studies were...disciples that he was the expected Mahdi Muh ammad Ah mad made a second...the Mahdi. This declaration of Mahdism should not conceal the fundamental...easily won over to Mahdism. To them Mahdism meant a revival of the slave trade...insurgents and went over to the Mahdists, the Egyptian Administration in...the revolt of Muh ammad Ah mad al-Mahdi reached the Bah r al-G + h...to offer their allegiance to the Mahdi. After an exhortation to join...the tribesmen in the doctrines of Mahdism. 7. One such chief was Yanqu...years he resisted attempts by the Mahdists to capture the province but was...
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Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and the State

Book by Sondra Hale; Westview Press, 1996

Subjects:

Feminism--Sudan, Women And Socialism--Sudan, Women In Islam--Sudan, Women In Politics--Sudan

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...and "Anglo-Egyptian" , Islamic states e.g., the Funj, the Mahdist , parliamentary democracies 1956-89 , military regimes, and...gender arrangements and culture of many Sudanese. Withal, Sudan is one of the poorest twenty-five countries in the world and...
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Islam, Nationalism, and Radicalism in Egypt and the Sudan

Book by Gabriel R. Warburg, Uri M. Kupferschmidt; Praeger, 1983

Subjects:

Egypt--Politics And Government--Congresses, Islam And Politics--Egypt--Congresses, Islam And Politics--Sudan--Congresses, Sudan--Politics And Government--Congresses

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...would once again flourish, so much the better. 4 The Mahdist State was the first true expression of Sudanese statehood, and Mahdism is regarded by many scholars as the first expression...Indeed, the vitality of the Ansar, the followers of the Mahdi, under the able leadership of the Mahdis son, Sayyid...centralized theocratic government. Indeed, many regarded the Mahdi as the forerunner and founder of modern Sudanese nationalism and the Ansar, the neo-Mahdist movement of the twentieth century, therefore became a...never quite came to grips with the neo-Mahdist movement. Mahdism, as they saw it, represented fanaticism and xenophobia...
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Imperial Diplomacy in the Era of Decolonization: The Sudan and Anglo-Egyptian Relations, 1945-1956

Book by W. Travis Hanes III; Greenwood Press, 1995

Subjects:

Egypt--Foreign Relations--Great Britain, Egypt--Foreign Relations--Sudan, Great Britain--Foreign Relations--Egypt, Great Britain--Foreign Relations--Sudan, Sudan--Foreign Relations--Egypt, Sudan--Foreign Relations--Great Britain

Collections: History, Entire Library

A new look at the struggle between those seeking a fully independent Sudan and those wishing to advance British interests in the Suez Canal Zone and the Sudan.

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Journal Articles on: (mahdi or mahdist or mahdism or mahadists) and sudan

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Two National Liberation Movements Compared: Oromia and the Southern Sudan

Journal article by Asafa Jalata; Social Justice, Vol. 27, 2000

Subjects:

Autonomy--Social aspects, Ethiopia--Autonomy and independence movements, National liberation movements--Social aspects, Sudan--Autonomy and independence movements

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...state in Sudan and the wreckage of the regional government (El Mahdi, 1965: 70). Turko-Egyptian rule extended to the south in 1840...Woodward, 1994: 79). Arab slave traders from the northern Sudan and other countries settled in the south and intensified the...and also legalized slavery." During the Turko-Egyptian and Mahdist regimes, social progress was arrested in the south, for...
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State Terrorism and Globalization: The Cases of Ethiopia and Sudan

Journal article by Asafa Jalata; International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Vol. 46, 2005

Subjects:

Africans--Political aspects, Ethiopia--Political aspects, Globalization--Analysis, Sudan--Political aspects, Terrorism--Analysis, Terrorism--Control

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...Islamic constitution in government, culture, and religion (El Mahdi, 1965: 19). Northern Sudanese elites enslaved population groups...present.
Sudan by Britain, the northern Sudanese elites could not effectively...and also legalized slavery. During the Turko-Egyptian and Mahdist regimes, social progress was arrested in the south, for the...
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The Sudan since 1989: National Islamic Front Rule

Journal article by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Richard Lobban; Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Vol. 23, 2001

Subjects:

Islam--Political aspects, National Islamic Front (Sudan)--Political activity, Sudan--Politics and government

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...ignored. The non-Muslim Nilotic and other minority peoples in the Sudan are usually forgotten except as they are referenced in terms...followed by a period of civilian democracy in which Sadiq al-Mahdi (great grandson of Muhammad Ahmed the 19th century Mahdi) was...
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Violence, Sacrifice and Chiefship in Central Equatoria, Southern Sudan

Journal article by Cherry Leonardi; Africa, Vol. 77, 2007

Subjects:

Community leadership--Models, Equatoria, Sudan--History, Law enforcement--Methods, Racial violence--Case studies, Tribal leaders--Powers and duties

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...circumstances of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and especially at the point when the Turco-Egyptian and Mahdist army remnants in the area were succeeded by the tukutuku troops of the Belgian Congo, during the brief existence of the Belgian...
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Solving the Crisis of Sudan: The Right of Self-Determination versus State Torture

Journal article by Mahgoub El-Tigani; Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Vol. 23, 2001

Subjects:

Human beings--Crimes against, National Islamic Front (Sudan)--Social policy, Sudan--Politics and government, Torture--Sudan

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...of these opponents, including Sadiq EI-Mahdi, the former elected prime minister, were...Prison in gross violation of prison laws (Sudan Human Rights Quarterly. 1990s). Disappearances...democratic government, led by Sadiq El-Mahdi, the Umma leader, rectified important international...

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Magazine Articles on: (mahdi or mahdist or mahdism or mahadists) and sudan

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Sudan: Birth of a New Nation

Magazine article by Anver Versi, Tristan Mcconnell; African Business, March 2005

Subjects:

Civil war--Analysis, Civil war--Sudan, Peace treaties--Analysis, Sudan--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...capital in Istanbul, overran Egypt and drove deep into present-day Sudan. Mohamed Ali Pashas mercurial campaigns in the 1820s carved...finished with the country. Mohamed Ahmed, better known as the Mahdi--the expected one--raised an army of the faithful and obliterated...
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Sudan: Past and Present

Magazine article by Allan Ramsay; Contemporary Review, Vol. 277, November 2000

Subjects:

Ambassadors--Personal narratives, Colonies--Sudan, Diplomats--Personal narratives, International relations--Management, Middle East--Foreign relations, Sudan--History

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...the 1972 agreement), and in the nineteenth century the Mahdists had swept all before them. Politics in Sudan is dominated by religious sects, the two most important of which, the al Mahdi and the al Mirghani, today form the main legal opposition...
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Sudan: Why So Gloomy

Magazine article; The Middle East, January 1993

Subjects:

Sudan--Economic aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...conditions for Sudans deliverance may never crop up again. Sudan GDP: S|pounds~116,351m; $1,278m GDP per capita: $49 Population...positions in the administration. The Umma party of Sadiq al Mahdi and the Democratic Unionists of Mohammed al Mirghani are widely...
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Sudan: Recasting U.S. Policy

Magazine article by Dan Connell; Foreign Policy in Focus, Vol. 5, November 3, 2000

Subjects:

Sudan

Collections: Entire Library

...opposition in droves. The Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement...election a year later of Sadiq al-Mahdi, the leader of a powerful Islamic...the army and civil society, al-Mahdi agreed to sign a truce and suspend...former Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi, who--finding himself isolated...
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Darfur's Road to Hell: With Mass Starvation and Disease the Inevitable Outcome of the Conflict in the Darfur Region of Sudan, Photojournalist Damian Bird Reports Back from Some of the Worst-Hit Refugee Camps and Looks at the Origins of This Humanitarian Tragedy. Additional Reporting by Chris Edwards

Magazine article by Damian Bird, Chris Edwards; Geographical, Vol. 76, November 2004

Subjects:

Darfur, Sudan (Region)--Environmental aspects, Diseases--Causes of, Diseases--Sudan, Refugee camps--Forecasts and trends

Collections: Entire Library

...Empire as its influence spread from Egypt southwards. Before Britain won the Battle of Omdurman in 1898, Sudan was briefly ruled by the Mahdi, Muhammad Ahmad ibn as Sayyid Abd Allah, who had wrested control from the Ottoman Empire. Darfur, which...

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Newspaper Articles on: (mahdi or mahdist or mahdism or mahadists) and sudan

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Sudan's Ex-Leader Calls for Pluralism: Mahdi Would Let South Decide Its Fate

Newspaper article by Gus Constantine; The Washington Times, May 28, 1997

Subjects:

Sudan

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...ex-leader calls for pluralism: Mahdi would let South decide its fate by Gus Constantine Sudan opposition leader Sadeq Mahdi said yesterday that the future...law in the country. But Mr. Mahdi said he hoped a tolerant, secular...
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The Sudan Government Has Already Signed a Peace Agreement with Rebels

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 3, 1997

Subjects:

Sudan

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

The Sudan government has already signed a peace agreement with rebels Sadeq Mahdi, a former prime minister of Sudan, reportedly stated that, in the event of his return to power and as a means of ending the long-standing...
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Republic of Sudan

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 2, 2001

Subjects:

Sudan

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...brought Islam in the 15th century. In the 1820s, Egypt took over Sudan, defeating the last of earlier empires, including the Fung...revolution was led by Muhammad Ahmad, who called himself the Mahdi (leader of the faithful), and his followers, the dervishes...
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The Government of Sudan Is Not Perpetrating Genocide

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 24, 1997

Subjects:

Garang, John, Sudan

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...regional African auspices of IGAD on July 8. Shouldnt the United States encourage that reconciliation in lieu of the stiletto approach urged by Messrs. Messing and Rudominer? MAHDI IBRAHIM MOHAMED Ambassador Republic of Sudan Washington
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Anti-Slavery Drive in War-Torn Sudan Provokes Response

Newspaper article by Charles Olivier; The Washington Times, May 25, 2000

Subjects:

Sudan

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...statements by the American Anti-Slavery Group. According to the Sudan Foundation, kidnapping raids have been going on between the...sensationalizing the issue. It got worse, he says, when Sadiq Mahdi, the elected prime minister overthrown by the current regime...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: (mahdi or mahdist or mahdism or mahadists) and sudan

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Mahdi

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

MAHDI ma de Arab.,=he who is divinely guided...religious leader in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. He declared himself in 1881 to be the...against unbelievers. His followers, known as Mahdists, for a time made pilgrimages to his tomb at Omdurman. The final defeat of the Mahdists in 1898 at Omdurman by an Anglo-Egyptian...
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Sudan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...then by Charles Gordon , provoked a complex revolt (1881) by the Mahdi (Muhammad Ahmad), who sought to end Egyptian influence and to purify Islam in Sudan. The Mahdists defeated Anglo-Egyptian punitive expeditions, and Britain and Egypt...
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Omdurman

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...largest city and chief commercial center of Sudan and part of a tricity metropolitan area...furniture and pottery making. In 1884 the Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad made his military headquarters...at the village of Omdurman. After the Mahdist forces destroyed Khartoum (1885), the...near Omdurman, marked the defeat of the Mahdist state in Sudan by the Anglo-Egyptian...
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Kordufan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Kordufan was under Turko-Egyptian rule until 1882, when the Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad fomented revolt. With the defeat of Mahdist forces in 1898, Kordufan became part of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (later the Republic of Sudan). ____________________ The...
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Slatin, Rudolf Carl, Freiherr Von

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Dara (1879) and governor-general of Darfur (1881). In the Mahdist War he was forced to surrender (1883) to the Arab leader, the Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad; he was a prisoner until 1895, when he escaped to Cairo. After serving under Kitchener in the reconquest of Sudan, he became inspector general of Sudan (1900 1914). During...

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